Michel Bauwens (of p2pfoundation) and I have embarked on a serious scholarly attempt to formulate useful concepts for analyzing peer-to-peer governance, or panarchy. He has a great synthetic beginning here:

The different aspects of peer governance

I feel like peer-to-peer property may be a subset of peer governance, but there may be advantages to keeping them separate insofar as government comes into being to protect property (e.g. Locke).